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Drawings & Sketches

76,868 works

Grey wash drawing of a castle gatehouse with an arched bridge over water, surrounded by trees and small figures.

Gate of the castle at Buren

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman with short white hair in a dark dress against a green background.

Mrs. Leslie Carter

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Charcoal and chalk drawing of two women embracing, one in a red headscarf, with a handwritten French dedication below.

Greeting

Antoine Calbet, 1940

Panoramic watercolor of the Awatere Valley with a river, hills, distant peaks and two spiky plants in the foreground.

The Awatere Valley, January 13, 1872

Reverend John Kinder, 1872

Pen and ink drawing of two muscular arms in anatomical study, with hatched shading and drapery at the right edge.

Two Anatomical Studies of An Arm

Jacques de Gheyn, 1615

Watercolor of a pink and white showy lady's slipper orchid with green leaves and buds on a pale background.

Showy Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium reginae)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Brown wash drawing of Phaeton struggling with rearing horses in a chariot beneath a radiant Apollo figure in clouds.

Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Apollo

Jean Jouvenet, 1680

Pastel portrait of a woman with long red hair, a white flower in her hair, and a blue dress against a green background.

Woman with Red Hair

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Farmer with horse team and Marie Colombier

Loose pencil and yellow crayon sketch of hunched workers beside a scaffolded building and harbor boats.

Workers on the Building Site

Edvard Munch, 1929

Pen and ink sheet with five studies of raised muscular arms and hands showing anatomy and shading.

Arm Studies, #2

Solon H. Borglum, 1890

Old Peasant

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of two women in headscarves looking upward with open mouths, one with clasped hands, by James Ensor.

My dead mother III

James Ensor, 1915

Watercolour of armoured knights on horseback and a kneeling knight before a crowned king and a veiled queen at a palace.

Piety: The Knights of the Round Table about to Depart in Quest of the Holy Grail

William Dyce, 1849

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a hilltop town with a church tower, rooftops, and a wooded hill.

(Sketchbook) Church and Tower, Laufenberg

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with a rust and green head wrap and soft, loosely drawn pale garment.

Fresque

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a rural house with a shingled roof, chimneys and a dormer, surrounded by trees and a wooden fence.

House among greenery (Świątniki?)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pen and ink sketch of women and children gathered around a piano in an interior room, several seen from behind.

Ryhmä naisia ja lapsia pianon ympärillä

Albert Edelfelt

Pencil sketch of wooden farm buildings in an alpine valley with steep mountain peaks and conifer forest behind.

View from Sextan, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Grey wash drawing of snowy mountain peaks and a rocky ridge with a cloud above, signed George Sturtevant 1895.

Ryan's Peak from South Ridge

George Sturtevant, 1895

Painting of a gnarled cedar tree with twisted trunk and drooping green branches against a pale sky.

Study of a Cedar

David Johnson, 1867

Painting of a seated woman in a white blouse and brown shawl holding an infant against a yellow striped background.

Alma Mater: Figure Study

Edvard Munch, 1930

Sleeping and waking woman

James Ensor, 1883

Pencil and wash drawing of bare trees and branches rising from snow-covered ground in a misty winter woodland.

Untitled (Trees in Snow)

George Elbert Burr, 1880

Red-chalk portrait of a young man in a military cap and high-collared uniform, with Latin inscription above.

Kiffin Rockwell

John Elliott, 1920

Pencil study of a winged figure with long hair, crown and sword, with vertical drapery below, for a church polychromy design.

Archangel Michael. Trial proof for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

The Rags Man

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Zingare

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pastel portrait of a smiling young blonde woman with a bob haircut against a tan and blue hatched background.

Blonde Girl

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of a room with an open hearth under a chimney hood, draped fabric and a mantel shelf on a sketchbook page.

Fireplace

Watercolor of a false indigo branch with pale yellow flower clusters, unopened buds and green leaves on a purple stem.

False Indigo (Baptista bructeata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman seen from behind, bent over a book, with faint grid lines on the paper.

Woman Reading, sketch for Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower